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Provedor de dados: 	64	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Urinary acidifier in diet with high excess base for adult cats	
Autores: 	Pires,Carolina Padovani; Saad,Flávia Maria de Oliveira Borges; Ogoshi,Rosana Cláudio Silva; Reis,Jéssica Santana dos; Santos,João Paulo Fernandes; Brunetto,Márcio Antonio.	
Data: 	2013-08-01	
Ano: 	2013	
Palavras-chave: 	Feline; Blood gas; PH.	
Resumo: 	Maintaining the pH of urine in the ideal range (6.2 - 6.4) is of great importance for health promotion in the lower urinary tract of cats. In the economic and standard feed sector this is a major concern, given that the animal urine tends to be alkaline after food consumption of those commercial segments, which predispose to the formation of struvite urolith. Therefore, this study aimed to study the effects of increasing levels of urinary acidifiers (0.0%, 0.3%, 0.6% and 0.9%, on a dry matter base) in feed with high excess base over the acid-basic balance in the organism, apparent digestibility coefficients of nutrients, urinary pH, hydro-electrolyte balance in cats, as well as the adequacy of equations proposed in the literature to estimate the urinary pH. Twenty-four adult cats, males and females were distributed in a completely randomized design, consisting of six animals per treatment. The dry matter content of urine presented a quadratic behavior (p&lt;0,05; y = 9.5863 + 3.2299x + 0.7871x² R² = 99,91%), HCO3-, total CO2 and excess blood base during the period in which the animals were fed were high when including 0.9% acidifier compared to 0.6% (p&lt;0.05). In contrast, the use of the additive did not change the urinary pH, blood electrolyte concentration, nutrient digestibility, fecal score, food and water intake (p&amp;gt;0.05). The equations proposed in the literature, which use excess of base in feed to estimate urinary pH, overestimated the pH values found in this study.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542013000400010	
Editor: 	Editora da Universidade Federal de Lavras	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1413-70542013000400010	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Ciência e Agrotecnologia  v.37 n.4 2013	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess